ultimate

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʌltɪmɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈʌltəmɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪt

AdjectiveEdit

 
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ultimate (not comparable)

  1. Final; last in a series.
    • 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England[1], page 15:
      [] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; []
  2. (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
  3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
    the ultimate pleasure
    the ultimate disappointment
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
      Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
  5. That will happen at some time; eventual.
  6. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
    • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
      those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
  7. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
    an ultimate constituent of matter

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NounEdit

ultimate (countable and uncountable, plural ultimates)

  1. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
  2. The final or most distant point; the conclusion
  3. The greatest extremity; the maximum
  4. (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc.

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VerbEdit

ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
    • 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
      These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.

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EtymologyEdit

From English ultimate.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈultimɑte/, [ˈult̪iˌmɑt̪e̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑte
  • Syllabification(key): ul‧ti‧ma‧te

NounEdit

ultimate

  1. ultimate frisbee (game)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative ultimate ultimatet
genitive ultimaten ultimatejen
partitive ultimatea ultimateja
illative ultimateen ultimateihin
singular plural
nominative ultimate ultimatet
accusative nom. ultimate ultimatet
gen. ultimaten
genitive ultimaten ultimatejen
ultimateinrare
partitive ultimatea ultimateja
inessive ultimatessa ultimateissa
elative ultimatesta ultimateista
illative ultimateen ultimateihin
adessive ultimatella ultimateilla
ablative ultimatelta ultimateilta
allative ultimatelle ultimateille
essive ultimatena ultimateina
translative ultimateksi ultimateiksi
instructive ultimatein
abessive ultimatetta ultimateitta
comitative ultimateineen
Possessive forms of ultimate (type nalle)
possessor singular plural
1st person ultimateni ultimatemme
2nd person ultimatesi ultimatenne
3rd person ultimatensa

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ultimate

  1. inflection of ultimare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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ultimate f pl

  1. feminine plural of ultimato

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ultimāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō